August 2014 Archives

There’s no need to use an electric toothbrush if you don’t want to. Brushing your toddler’s teeth well is more important than the type of toothbrush you use. A manual or electric toothbrush is only as good as its operator!

However, most toddlers find electric toothbrushes fun. If it makes life easier, you could use one. Electric toothbrushes are effective at removing plaque, too.

Your toddler may want to have his teeth cleaned with an electric toothbrush if he sees you using one. He’ll probably ask you if he can have a go.

Look for a quality brand with a timer and a small rotating, oscillating head. A rechargeable brush is much better than a battery-operated one. Battery-operated toothbrushes slow down as the battery runs down, and won’t clean as well.

It’s worth investing in these features if you decide to get an electric brush. As the heads are easy to change, it is possible to have one handle, with a separate head for each family member. This makes it more cost-effective.

If your toddler won’t let you use an electric brush on his teeth, but you’d like to, carry on with his manual toothbrush for a while. Then you can introduce the electric toothbrush again when he feels ready.

Manufacturers advise that children should be three years old before they start using electric toothbrushes by themselves. But, as with anything else your toddler puts in his mouth, supervise him closely if you let him have a go with an electric toothbrush.

Electric tooth brush head is hard, long-term use may damage the gums, the rotating force and some texture delicate teeth had to bear the electric toothbrush,on the gums vulnerable people, and consult with your doctor before using.

Therefore, experts suggest not to long-term use of electric tooth, especiallychildren’s defensive ability is weaker, it is best not to use an electric toothbrush.

If you have to buy electric toothbrush, the two are used interchangeably, but still want to a manual toothbrush, a week can be used occasionally 2 ~ 3 times ofelectric toothbrush.

Children before the age of 7 should not use electric toothbrush

Expert introduction, frequency and intensity of electric toothbrush is fixed,because children can not grasp the method of using appropriate, easy to damage the tender gums, the gingival redness symptoms, but also make theteeth are subjected to severe wear. Severe cases can also cause periodontitis,lead to tooth loss.

Electric toothbrush into the plug and drive two types of battery. Compared with the traditional manual toothbrush, under electric driving, the brush head to the thousands per minute is thousands of times the speed, efficiency is much higher than the manual toothbrush bristles, but it demands higher, in order to notdamage gums.

The brush head size is differ from man to man

“Buy a toothbrush, first of all depends on the size of the brush head.” Director Han said, “brush head are generally smaller, so that it can rotate flexibly in the oral cavity. Children’s oral small brush head needs to be smaller. In general, the brush head size to every man according to circumstances, need to consider the size, the degree of opening oral and personal habits and other factors. There is no uniform standard.” America dental society, adult toothbrush should be: the brush head is about 2.54 ~ 3.18 cm, width of 0.79 ~ 0.95 cm; the brush hair 2 to 4 rows, each row of 5 ~ 12 beam. However, the adult also can select the brush head 2.3 cm long, 0.8 cm wide children toothbrush.

Secondly, to see the brush hair soft and hard. The bristles should choose soft hard moderate, or slightly soft. But it should be noted, too soft hairs easily brush is not clean. The bristles are made before the bristles, very hard, easy to damage the teeth and gums, has been basically eliminated; bristles present multimade of nylon yarn. Specifically speaking, can be divided into two types –common silk and DuPont silk. Du Bangsi good elasticity, not easy to fall.

Third, sanding treatment is also very important. Brush after cutting, if after thesmooth processing, easy too sharp and harm. Brush toothbrush Maojian grindingsanding round, can prevent the damage to the gums, protective effect ofstronger. At the same time, the Korean director remind everybody, the toothbrush should be changed every 3 months. The use of time is too long,bristle accumulate bacteria, bad oral health. Using DuPont wire brush the people not by brush didn’t fall without replacing the toothbrush. In addition, the brush head is square or diamond shape, the bristles of the brush border flat or wavy,brush handle is bent is straight, not on the tooth brushing effect what effect.Brush your teeth with the ordinary toothbrush is very good.